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<TFDL>

Hello all,

14:54

Can you please tell me a way to start up and shut down ubuntu thin client remotely? this is because our thin client computers are under the floor we do not have an easy access to power it up or down?

14:54

Thank you!

14:56

<alkisg>

!epoptes

14:56

<ltsp>

epoptes: Epoptes is a computer lab administration and monitoring tool. It works on Ubuntu and Debian based labs with LTSP or non-LTSP servers, thin and fat clients, standalone workstations, NX clients etc. More info: http://www.epoptes.org

14:57

<TFDL>

Thank you <ltsp>!

14:57

<alkisg>

Haha

14:57

That's a bot

14:58

<TFDL>

oh yes alkisg

14:58

<alkisg>

:)

14:58

<TFDL>

alkisg why you often put the exclamation infront of a word like !epoptes

14:59

its meaning?

15:00

thanks again for the link.

15:00

<alkisg>

ltsp is a computer program

15:00

It remembers stuff

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When we want to get reminded of that stuff, we tell it commands with ! in front

15:00

And if we tell it something it doesn't know, then it tells us that it doesn't know...

The thin-client then boots the downloaded Linux initramfs image, detects hardware, and connects to the LTSP server's X session. [...] The LTSP server transfers all graphical information to the thin-client over the network.

22:13

But how does that happen?

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<other_ot1er_joe>

in a default setup. ldm spawns X session on the thin client folled by a greeter for the user to log in. Once the user logs in, an ssh session is started to the ltsp server creating a master socket for all subsequent processes

22:16

an ssh session connecting the client to the server, I should say

22:19

so, after login, programs are started on the server then forwarded to the thin clients local X display via an encrypted ssh tunnel

22:20

<david__>

Oh, so it really is just X? (albit over a compressed/crypted shh tunnel?)